WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) The U.S.
Supreme Court on May 24 unanimously held that conduct by the National
Football League, its 32 teams and the clubs’ wholly owned licensing
company in granting an exclusive license to Reebok International Ltd. to
use the NFL’s and teams’...

by
James R. McGibbon,
Carla Wong McMillian, Jeffrey P. Bialos, Steuart H. Thomsen
In American Needle, Inc. v. National
Football League , 560 U.S. __ (2010), the Supreme Court unanimously held
that teams in the National Football League and a corporate entity that they
formed to manage their intellectual...